patch failed bug report

[Chuck Tuffli <ctuffli gmail com>]

Hi -

I tried to run 'meld .' in a directory tracked by subversion and got
the following error message

Invoking 'patch' failed.

Maybe you don't have 'GNU patch' installed,
or you use an untested version of Subversion.

Please send email bug report to:
meld-list gnome org

Containing the following information:

- meld version: '1.3.0'
- source control software type: 'Subversion'
- source control software version: 'X.Y.Z'
- the output of 'svn diff somefile.txt'
- patch command: 'patch --strip=0 --reverse --directory=/tmp/tmpIGAMmB-meld'


[460] svn --version
svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
   compiled Mar 23 2011, 13:08:34

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
[461] which patch
/usr/bin/patch
[462] patch --version
patch 2.6
Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
...

'svn diff' shows the correct unified diff of the changed file (Makefile)

The patch command shown just hangs. The tmp directory it refers to
does exist and contains 3 files: Makefile Makefile.orig Makefile.rej

---chuck